Cygwin shell in VS Code tries to activate conda. How to prevent this?

Question

In my Windows 10 computer I have VS Code and Cygwin installed. I use Cygwin bash as the shell for VS Code. I also have the Anaconda Python distribution installed.

Whenever I open a new shell in VS Code, it tries to run

cd C:/path/to/a/folder/that/does/not/exist/
conda activate base

This obviously fail. But I do not care, because my shells work great as they are. I do not want to activate conda.

How I do I make my bash inside VS Code stop running those 2 commands?

EXTRA INFO: This does no happen on normal Cygwin shells (outside VS Code) This only happens for a new shell. The shell that opens as VS Code starts does not do this.

Answer 1

Found the solution on https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/issues/4305

One needs to add

"python.terminal.activateEnvironment": false,

to settings.json